ILLEGAL USE OF NARCOTIC DRUGS, PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, AND THEIR ANALOGUES HARMS HEALTH, THEIR ILLEGAL TRAFFICKING IS PROHIBITED AND ENTAILS LIABILITY ESTABLISHED BY LAW. Ian McEwan is one of the most famous contemporary British writers. He received the Somerset Maugham Award for his debut book "First Love, Last Rites." His "Amsterdam" won the Booker Prize. The Russian translation of the novel became an intellectual bestseller, and Viktor Golyshev's work was recognized with Russia's "Small Booker" prize, awarded in its first and only instance for translation. Two friends — a successful editor-in-chief of a popular daily newspaper and a famous composer creating the "Symphony of the Millennium" — make an euthanasia pact: if one falls into a state of oblivion, the other must kill him...